Tesla's batteries could be bigger business than electric cars

[demonboy]

Interested to read this headline today but don't know much about the Powerwall system. It's a 'home' solution but guess r&d comes from Tesla's car interests so is this/or could this be 12v?

http://gu.com/p/48784

Does this have any relevance to us boat-owners? Should we be keeping an eye on this? Interested to hear from anyone in the know.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Interested to read this headline today but don't know much about the Powerwall system. It's a 'home' solution but guess r&d comes from Tesla's car interests so is this/or could this be 12v?

http://gu.com/p/48784

Does this have any relevance to us boat-owners? Should we be keeping an eye on this? Interested to hear from anyone in the know.

It's about the same cost as the Li-ion batteries you can already buy from Mastervolt. An article in The Register today suggests that the bigger Tesla Powerwall is good for only 50 full charge-discharge cycles per year, with an absolute maximum of 500 overall. The Mastervolt ones are listed as "<2000" total cycles.

 

[Strolls]

Existing thread: http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?429349-New-Tesla-Energy-Battery-packs

 

[William_H]

Typical journalists hype probably a reprint of the comnpany release. Not enough technical detail to determine if it is really any different form existing batteries. Lithium ion.
So don't get excited olewill